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November 18th, 2009

Posted By Mel Gagarin | November 18th, 2009 | Category: Media Watch | No Comments » Print This Post Print This Post

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LDF News and Media Today:

A sampling of Race, Justice, Equality and Democracy in the news.

6th Circuit Court panel hears arguments in Michigan Civil Rights Initiative lawsuit

Opponents of Michigan’s 2006 Civil Rights Initiative that banned public institutions from using affirmative action had their day in court again yesterday.

Perez Plans Restoration, Revitalization of Civil Rights Division

Tom Perez, who was formally installed as the head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division on Friday afternoon, laid out an “agenda of restoration and revitalization” in remarks at the Great Hall of the Robert F. Kennedy building.

Father of the Civil Rights Act turns 80

ACCORD cordially invites you to attend an 80th Birthday Celebration for Dr. Robert B. Hayling “Father of the Civil Rights Act of 1964? on Friday, November 20th, 2009.

Feds to check if BART service and fares amounts to bias

A federal agency says it is conducting a civil rights review of BART service and fares in part because of a complaint that a planned rail extension to the Oakland International Airport would unfairly benefit affluent airline travelers over minority public transit riders.

Ten months after Democrats took over the Capitol and the first African-American president moved into the White House, black lawmakers are in control of some of the most powerful positions in Congress — and face new challenges to using their long-sought influence.

Heather Ellis case one in a long line of Missouri’s racial injustices

When hundreds of people rallied outside a Wal-Mart in Kennett, Missouri Monday, they did so to protest the treatment by police and local prosecutors of Heather Ellis, the now infamous 24-year-old African-American college student who three years ago made a routine trip to that very same Wal-Mart to run some errands and ended up leaving in handcuffs after being accused of cutting a checkout line.

Movement on Federal Judicial Selection

The Senate voted to move forward on the nomination of a federal appeals court judge amid Democratic concern over the pace of filling judicial vacancies. The 70-to-29 vote will allow debate to begin on the appointment of David Hamilton, a federal judge in Indiana, to the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, in Chicago.

House Considers Impeachment of Federal Judge

A federal judge from Louisiana who had run up big gambling debts routinely solicited money and gifts from lawyers with cases before his court, Congressional investigators said Tuesday as the House opened impeachment hearings in the judge’s case.

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